Human Right to Health

First
elucidated by the 1946 Constitution of the World Health
Organization, states would declare that “the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental
rights of every human being,” defining governmental
obligations for specific health and social measures to realize
for each individual “a state of complete physical, mental, and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity.” source: World Health Organization (WHO)
Constitution, Preamble (Geneva: WHO).

Health
care is also an unwritten natural right. Here is a very good article
explaining why health care is a human right from the perspective of
natural law. Scroll down to Background and start from there.

Should
Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?--from
allnurses.com:

This article looks at funding
healthcare as a basic human right. It examines what is a basic
human right. It looks at the need for re-examinaton of the health
care system in the United States. Is health care a right or a
privilege? By looking at the number of uninsured and who they are,
we ask if everyone has the same access to health care. We examine
traditional methods of funding and use the Medicare model as a
framework.

I am
a Black American citizen of Native and African descent, and am
therefore entitled to my certain inalienable rights! I make
no apologies about it! There is one thing we all need to realize
while fighting for justice for all on the health care front. We must
fight to increase awareness about health care access and
affordability and the ramifications thereof. To do this effectively
and efficiently requires us to garner the courage to speak
truth to power and let the chips fall where they may. To do anything
less is simply a wasted effort of vital energy. We all know that the
reason why we do not have universal single payer health care is
because we accept the social standards designed, not to fulfill those
in need, but to fill the bellies of those who greed; those who are in
the position to dictate how the current struggling 99% fail to
self-sustain in our current dwindled-down economy.

I
want to share with you all today that if we do not speak the truth,
which is to say that "HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT," then we
must lay our efforts aside and retreat. If we do not stand for what
is right and orderly based on our moral and spiritual principles,
then we shall stand for nothing! Health care is as much a human
right as it is for Blacks/African and Native Americans, Latinos,
Asians, LGBTQ and other minorities to have a fair shot at equal
employment opportunities.

We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed. . . .

The
right to health, a human right enshrined in international Human
Rights Law

The World Medical Association

The
right to health was first articulated in the WHO
Constitution (1946) which states that : "the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental
rights of every human being...". The preamble of the
Constitution defines health as : ‘.. a state of complete physical,
mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity ».

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